Mao's Last Revolution

Mao's Last Revolution
Author: Roderick MACFARQUHAR
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 742
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674040414


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Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing - Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four - while Mao often played one against the other.


Mao's Last Revolution
Language: en
Pages: 742
Authors: Roderick MACFARQUHAR
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Po
Mao’s Last Revolution
Language: en
Pages: 764
Authors: Roderick MacFarquhar
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-03-15 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Befor
Mao’s Last Revolution
Language: en
Pages: 764
Authors: Roderick MacFarquhar
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-08-18 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Befor
Last Boat Out of Shanghai
Language: en
Pages: 546
Authors: Helen Zia
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-18 - Publisher: Ballantine Books

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The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution—a heartrending
The Cultural Revolution
Language: en
Pages: 433
Authors: Frank Dikötter
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-06 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Press

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The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revoluti